And if you enjoyed that, please join us for our next event on Tuesday, February 7, 2012, when we'll bring you great readings from Julia Borcherts, Lauryn Allison Lewis, Margie Skelly, Dustin Monk, and Lillian Huang Cummins.

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At our recent January 3rd reading, Chicago author Holly McDowell read us this stunning excerpt from her novel-in-progress Farah Minor:

And if you enjoyed that, please join us for our next event on Tuesday, February 7, 2012, when we'll bring you great readings from Julia Borcherts, Lauryn Allison Lewis, Margie Skelly, Dustin Monk, and Lillian Huang Cummins.

And if you enjoyed that, please join us for our next event on Tuesday, February 7, 2012, when we'll bring you great readings from Julia Borcherts, Lauryn Allison Lewis, Margie Skelly, Dustin Monk, and Lillian Huang Cummins.

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At our recent January 3rd reading, our guest Lawrence Santoro shared with us this evocative and shocking recipe for "Root Soup, Winter Soup." You may, in fact, be able to hear the gasps from our audience...

And if you enjoyed that, please join us for our next event on Tuesday, February 7, 2012, when we'll bring you great readings from Julia Borcherts, Lauryn Allison Lewis, Margie Skelly, Dustin Monk, and Lillian Huang Cummins.

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If you were part of our standing-room crowd at Tuesday Funk this past January 3rd, you probably had not just your socks but your shoes blown off too. It was as strong an evening of readers as we've had at Hopleaf, and we've had some strong ones. (We've also ordered a few strong ones from Johnny at the bar, but that's a different, if simultaneous, story.)

The night started out with a bang as Christopher Sweet took us back to his college days and painted us a funny and discomfiting portrait of "El Amor Brujo." Holly McDowell explored the frustrations of being an ambitious girl in the France of yesteryear, with an excerpt from her novel Farah Minor. And co-host William Shunn showed that he's a "Stand Up" guy with a story about a most unusual comedy performance.

After a break for beer and a poem about Bill's cousin the burglar, we welcomed Lawrence Santoro to the microphone to lead us through a most unsettling recipe for "Root Soup, Winter Soup." Then Stephen Markley finished out the evening by attempting to explain to us (and to his idiot friends) what goes into a book about the process of publishing that book.

But don't worry if you weren't there! We'll be posting video of the evening's performances over the coming days and weeks, so watch this space. And of course Tuesday Funk will be back February 7th with work from Julia Borcherts, Lauryn Allison Lewis, Margie Skelly, Dustin Monk, and Lillian Huang Cummins. Be sure to be there, and strap your shoes on tight.

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Come in out of the cold! Tuesday Funk has an amazing show full of warmth and cheer all laid out for its 41st big episodeand maybe a few laughs and chills on tap, too, not to mention all that great Hopleaf beer.

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You know William Shunn as a co-host of Tuesday Funk, the guy who does those wacky poems every month. But he's also a blogger, a podcaster, a programmer, a designer, an inventor, a collector, a cabinetmaker, a bowler, a moviegoer, a foodie, a traveler, a tinkerer, a priest, an atheist, a curmudgeon, a felon, a photographer, a chauffeur, a skeptic, a rube, a ruffian, a layabout, a lurker, a dilettante, a poseur, a pundit, a primate, an ancestor, an earthling, an alien, a canvas, a convenience, an improvisation, an illusion, and occasionally a writer. His latest project is a young-adult science fiction novel which currently goes by the name Waking Vishnu, and which you can read a very brief snippet from here. He also wishes you would bug him more about going to the gym.

Please join us to hear Bill read an actual short story on Tuesday, January 3, 2012, at 7:30 pm in Hopleaf's upstairs bar, together with our great lineup of Stephen Markley, Lawrence Santoro, Holly McDowell, and Christopher Sweet!

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Holly McDowell was already a writer, an artist, a computer
geek and a day trader before she moved to Chicago three months ago. Now, she's also
a drinker of glögg, a frequenter of Hopleaf and, most importantly, a
collector of boots and winter coats. Her serialized novel series, King Solomon's Wives, begins in 2012. Look for the first episode
from Amazon.com and Coliloquy, on e-devices everywhere.

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Award-winning writer and narrator, Lawrence Santoro began
writing dark tales at age five.

In 2001 his novella "God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate
Him" was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. In 2002, his adaptation and
audio production of Gene Wolfe's "The Tree Is My Hat," was also
Stoker nominated.

In 2003, his Stoker-recommended "Catching"
received Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow's 17th Annual "Year's Best Fantasy
and Horror" anthology. In 2004, "So Many Tiny Mouths" was cited
in the anthology's 18th edition. In the 20th, his novella, "At Angels
Sixteen," from the anthology A DARK AND DEADLY VALLEY, was similarly honored.

Larry's first novel, "Just North of Nowhere," was
published in 2007. A collection of his short fiction, DRINK FOR THE
THIRST TO COME, was published in 2011.

He lives in Chicago and is working on two new novels,
"Griffon and the Sky Warriors," and "A Mississippi Traveler, or Sam
Clemens Tries the Water"

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Chris has been writing for more than the requisite 10,000
hours. "Yet still no word from Publisher's Clearinghouse," as the New Yorker
cartoon caption read, oh, about ten years ago, I'd say.

He enjoys literary genres where the writer talks about
himself in the third person. It reminds him of growing up in Kansas City, where
his parents would frequently reference him as if he were absent, though he were
standing between them. For example: